Dr Nicole Flindt is a postdoc researcher and head of the Graduate School and Managing Director of the Research Department in the Vice-Rectorate for Research, Digitalisation and Sustainability at Heidelberg University of Education, Germany. She studied education and law at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg and completed her doctorate on e-learning at the University of Heidelberg in cooperation with the software company SAS GmbH. Her research focuses on e-learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for schools and universities, neurodidactics, mental health and higher education research. She is project manager of the EU project Young Refugees AI Student Empowerment Program (RAISE) for the development of AI for brain-friendly e-learning portals, which are specifically designed to contribute to the better integration of young refugees and migrants into the European labour market, but are also intended to be used as flexible and scalable AI for many other areas of education.

She is also a member of the editorial team of the international peer-reviewed journals Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) (Malaysia) and InSight: Jurnal IlmiahPsikologi (Yogyakarta/Indonesia).

She is part of the AI interdisciplinary group Critical AI Engineering, Digital Humanities and Educational Transfer CAEDHET (University of Heidelberg in cooperation with Heidelberg University of Education) in which she contributes her knowledge in the areas of digital humanities and educational transfer, drawing on her background in the humanities and her pedagogical and didactic experience in the AI project RAISE. On the other hand, with her legal background, she can assess the ethical consequences of engineering decisions in the areas of ethical reflection and AI engineering, and has herself been involved in the design of AI (AI engineering) as part of an educational science/IT team. Nicole Flindt is the author of several AI papers and supervisor of national and international PhD students.